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Test the new Google UI
The rumors that Google is redesigning seems to be true and there is a cool trick if you want to test the new design!
Go at google.com and paste that code:
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javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com");
Open a new window and go to google.com, and you should see the new design!
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Zen HTML and CSS coding, and how to install it on Windows with E Text-Editor
Zen coding is one of the new cool kid presently, if you haven’t heard of it I would suggest your read this article from smashing magazine or look at this video presentation.
Basically it enables you to create HTML from CSS snippet. It might not sound powerful at first, but when you start playing with, some wonderful things happen in your head (with no drugs). Let’s look at a simple example, let’s say you want a header with an id and a class followed by a list element. Here what you would do with zen:
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div#header.home>ul>li*3
You do Apple-E (CTRL-E in win) and you get:
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<div id="header" class="home">
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<ul>
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<li></li>
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<li></li>
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<li></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
There is much more about Zen, but this is…
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9 resources to create better HTML forms
Forms are a pretty boring piece of the Internet, it’s not fun to create and it’s not fun to interact with. Yet this is mostly our only way to communicate. We should strive to make better forms and make them as painless as possible to complete. Here are some resources worth looking to make better forms in every way possible.
Keep it simple
Look at the Twitter registration, it does not ask for the password twice and there is only 6 fields. If you must have more fields then please let them register and ask for it in their profile. Less fields there are, more potential subscribers you get (avoid long form and duplicate if you can). Also please keep them focus on finishing you form, no…
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Another jQuery podcast, official this time
Is it a jQuery week or not? Another jQuery podcast has made its appearance this week. First guest? John Resig.
You can get more information and the first episode here.
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yayQuery, A jQuery podcast
yayQuery is a cool show that is talking exclusively of jQuery related stuff, as this is a really young show, you need to be a bit indulgent on the technicalities that comes with a podcast.
Really liked the mobile section.
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Google invest in mobile advertisement with AdMob
Google recently acquired AdMob, a pioneer company into mobile advertisement. Given the Google position on advertising (leader..) it is not to be surprise they bought a rising star in mobile advertisement. For me, mobile advertisement is really a big hassle. It take so much space of your tiny screen, one of the reason I decided not to put advertisement on Position Absolute mobile website.
You can see the Google announcement here.
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The next generation of web developers and designers
I recently did a round table with other graduates from my college to first years students in the Multimedia Integration program. It was fascinating to see the actual next generation that would work on the web, and what was their inspiration as new students in a 3 year program were they would learn all about design, front-end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript and a bit of PHP), flash, video and 3d.
First thing I saw was that I was becoming old, with 5 years working as a front-end developer, I already lost some hairs and could have been a teacher. The students looked a bit like kids that liked to play video games a lot, which in fact when I think about it, was not very different…
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More on Douglas statement: “HTML5 needs to be reset”
Small followup on Douglas Crockford statement at the fronteers.
@carina has been kind enough to link me to an article from Douglas Crockford explaining why he think HTML5 needs to be reset. There is also a nice discussion at the end of the article.
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Week round-up and Friday video: Envato CEO interview
Let’s begin with the Friday video, we got the Envato CEO on how Envato started.
There was also some cool news this week:
First the Firefox 3.6 beta is ready to be picked up. As usual the FF next version contains some new stuff to try with HTML5 and CSS3.
Google released Closure. Closure is the current javascript framework used at google, it also comes with a set of tools and is used in gmail, google docs and more. It is a bit low on features for website creation if you ask me, but I think it could be used with web applications.
Douglas Crockford said at the fronteers that “HTML5 needs to be reset. Or W3C needs to be abolished”
A bit harsh, but I was not there, I suppose…
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Some Tweets
- looked at bell and videotron for a tv network solution, full of hidden rules, went with shaw direct @ShawDirect_News , honest service
- interesting post about Cross-domain localStorage http://bit.ly/9dfW8F
- back to work after 2 week of renovation on my house, glad to be back at doing javascript..
- traded my computer for this http://bit.ly/cCKVbr for 2 week, want my computer back..
- kind of old, bit I like it http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/
- I really have a love/hate relationship with the E texteditor, so good but so bad at the same time
